Leadership Team

As our founder, Mr. Yao currently serves as the Chairman of our Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of our Company. Starting his career in Shandong Province, Eastern China, in the late 1980s, Mr. Yao rose through the ranks at various food processing businesses before moving to Singapore in 1997. After a short stint at a mechanical engineering job, Mr. Yao founded Tungray Singapore, providing automation solutions for manufacturing businesses. Starting as a one-person shop, Mr. Yao expanded his business into a conglomerate with subsidiaries in China and Singapore and businesses spanning across manufacturing solutions, welding, motor production, etc., including founding Tongri Electric, one of Mr. Yao’s first China-based businesses in 2002, Tungray Industrial in 2010, and Qingdao Tungray Intelligent in 2017, among others. Mr. Yao graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mechanics from Zhengzhou Institute of Food Sciences (now Henan University of Technology) in 1988 and finished EMBA programs in Peking University President Class in 2014.

Mr. Tang has served as the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Tungray Industrial since May 2010, and as its CEO since its formation in May 2010, and has served as CEO of Tongsheng Intelligent since its formation in October 2021 and as the CEO and director of Tongsheng Development since its formation in August 2022. In these roles, Mr. Tang played a major part in establishing our Shenzhen-based manufacturing base for our ETO-focused business and continues to supervise the various ETO-focused business lines of our Shenzhen-based subsidiaries. Mr. Tang started his career with one of our Singapore subsidiaries, first joining Tung Resource in August 2004. He graduated from Singapore Institute of Management in 2002 with a diploma in Business and Management.

Since July 2014, Mr. Lee has served as the Managing Partner of Orca Creation Pte Ltd., a mechanical solution and product industrialization provider in Singapore that he co-founded in September 2005. From September 2005 to July 2014, Mr. Lee served as its General Manager, managing its human resources and business operations. Before his roles at Orca Creation, Mr. Lee served as a Program Manager and later as a Business Unit Manager for HPI Innovation Sdn Bhd., a mechanical solution company from August 2004 to September 2005. Earlier in his career, from September 1992 to August 2004, Mr. Lee spent more than 12 years at Hewlett Packard Singapore, joining as a Mechanical Engineer for the company’s ink jet printer business, before rising through the rank as a Senior Engineer and eventually as a manager of the Engineering Department, supervising product launch, manufacturing strategy and product design. Mr. Lee graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh in 1992.

Since July 2022, Mr. Yao has served as the Chief Technology Officer of Tungray Singapore, supervising our Singapore-based ETO businesses. Before assuming his current role at Tungray Singapore, Mr. Yao worked as a robotic engineer at Changi General Hospital Ltd., from September 2017 to July 2022. Before that, Mr. Yao worked as an executive engineer for SMRT Trains Ltd., a major Singapore rail operator affiliated with the Singapore Government from November 2015 to September 2017. Mr. Yao graduated from the National University of Singapore with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 2015. He is also a Functional Safety Engineer since 2019 with a certification from TÜV SÜD Rail GmBH.

Ms. Qian brought to the Company more than two decades of financial accounting experience in the manufacturing industry. Prior to her appointment as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, Ms. Qian had served as finance director for Tungray Singapore Pte. Ltd. (“Tungray Singapore”), a Singapore subsidiary of the Company, since March 2024. Before joining Tungray Singapore, Ms. Qian held the position of finance director of Korrun Company Ltd. (SHE: 300577), a Chinese listed bag and suitcase manufacturer, from January 2022 to March 2024. From December 2018 to December 2021, Ms. Qian served as finance director for Kolmeks (Chuzhou) Ltd., the Chinese subsidiary of a Finland-based pump manufacturer. Earlier in her career, Ms. Qian spent more than a decade working in various financial and accounting roles for several manufacturing businesses in China, including a Chinese subsidiary for the US-based food manufacturing company, Cargill, Inc., a Chinese subsidiary of the British-based chemical manufacturer, Lucite International, and Shanghai Li Cai Metal Products Company Ltd., a metal product manufacturer. Ms. Qian successfully completed all MBA program courses during exchange study at ESIC University, Spain, in 2012, an MBA degree from Shanghai University, Shanghai, China in 2012, and 2 college degrees in accounting and tax from Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, Jiangxu Province, China, in 2002. Ms. Qian is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) of the U.S. and got CPA Individual License to Practice (CPA status: Active).